Climate averages 1991–2020
Soweto weather
in November.
A warm, wet month: the joint 4th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a warm month in Soweto: daytime highs average 24.7°C and nights cool to about 13.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 99 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes November a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 23 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Roodepoort (12 km away). In November its highs average 24.3°C, about as warm as Soweto, with 99 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Soweto ranks joint 63rd of 95 for the warmest November highs and joint 58th of 95 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 95 cities is 25.8°C; Soweto is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 99 mm to 141 mm.
The annual picture
November in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Soweto climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.0°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 132 | 16.9 | 13.614 h |
| February | 24.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 118 | 14.4 | 13.013 h |
| March | 23.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 90 | 12.8 | 12.312 h |
| April | 21.1°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 45 | 7.3 | 11.511 h |
| May | 19.0°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 18 | 3.1 | 10.811 h |
| June | 16.7°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 8.1 | 1.4 | 10.511 h |
| July | 16.9°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 3.2 | 0.8 | 10.711 h |
| August | 20.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 9.7 | 1.9 | 11.211 h |
| September | 24.2°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 21 | 3.4 | 11.912 h |
| October | 25.1°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 73 | 10.4 | 12.713 h |
| November, selected | 24.7°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 99 | 13.9 | 13.413 h |
| December | 24.9°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 141 | 18.4 | 13.714 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
November in nearby cities
- Roodepoort in NovemberSouth Africa · 12 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 12.4°C · 99 mm rain
- Randfontein in NovemberSouth Africa · 18 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 12.8°C · 99 mm rain
- Johannesburg in NovemberSouth Africa · 20 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 12.3°C · 100 mm rain
- Westonaria in NovemberSouth Africa · 22 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 13.6°C · 99 mm rain
- Krugersdorp in NovemberSouth Africa · 22 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 12.6°C · 90 mm rain
- Randburg in NovemberSouth Africa · 24 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 13.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Alberton in NovemberSouth Africa · 26 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 13.3°C · 100 mm rain
- Tokoza in NovemberSouth Africa · 29 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 13.4°C · 99 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Soweto) is explained once on the Soweto year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Roodepoort, Westonaria and Randfontein lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.